R. Kelly's behind bars thanks in large part to his own inner circle -- enablers and ex-employees who handed the feds videos of Kelly having sex with underage girls, according to the attorney for multiple alleged victims.
Gerald Griggs -- who represents Joycelyn Savage's family among others -- tells TMZ the federal investigation run by the Northern District of Illinois uncovered over 20 videos of Kelly engaged with minors.
Both Griggs and our federal law enforcement sources tell us the tapes show multiple victims ... and prosecutors confirmed with multiple witnesses the girls were underage. Griggs says several of Kelly's enablers -- past and present -- flipped and turned over the tapes to investigators. He says those videos were exactly what the feds needed to secure indictments for sex crimes, including child pornography.
We broke the story last month ... an ex-employee testified the singer regularly recorded his sexual encounters with underage girls, and believed the feds got their hands on some of that video.
As we reported ... Kelly was arrested Thursday after a federal grand jury handed up a 13-count indictment, including 4 counts of producing child pornography and 2 counts of receiving child pornography.
Of course, he's facing another 5-count federal indictment out of the Eastern District of NY which includes racketeering and 4 violations of the Mann Act. Prosecutors in Brooklyn want to keep Kelly locked up until his trial too.
Meanwhile, Joycelyn's parents say they're desperately trying to get in touch with her and get her help ... and won't feel any vindication over Kelly's arrest until they do.
Hoff2017 on July 13rd, 2019 at 13:16 UTC »
Just recently finished reading, “Soulless: the Case Against R. Kelly” by Jim DeRogatis. He’s the reporter that originally scooped the story back in the nineties.
Cliff notes for you: - Kelly was sexually abused as a child, cannot read - did marry Aliyah when she was underage, annulment happened and a settlement forbade him from contacting her again. - The case against him for the piss video fell apart when the victim’s family (aunts and cousins and the like, not parents) testified the girl in the video was not her, and the girl herself refused to testify. - Over the years many women have come forth only to settle with Kelly out of court. His entourage has ALWAYS been an active participant in procuring women and then helping keep it hush-hush, EVEN THOUGH that entourage has been a rotating door of people (which is insane).
Kelly’s record sales are down. He has sold off properties, run into some tax issues, and he has spent millions of dollars settling with these women over the years. The sad but true part is: he has been turned in by staff because he is NOT the powerful, rich man he used to be. The payouts are drying up, and now everyone wants to be the hero, which is just as disgusting as his perpetual predatory nature
anecdotal_yokel on July 13rd, 2019 at 12:52 UTC »
I mean there has been evidence he’s a pedo since at least the 90s. Most of reddit is too young to remember but he met Aaliyah at 12 and married her at 15. That was mid 90s and everyone knew it. Why is it taking a quarter century to finally do something?
PrincessBananas85 on July 13rd, 2019 at 08:46 UTC »
I can't believe that it actually took this long for them to find those tapes I just hope that they don't let him get away with all these horrible things.